Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of all the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Like a bird with broken wing that has traveled through wind for years . . . I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .

They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look.

A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested.

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

Leaves like rusty tin for the desolate mind that has seen the end- the barest glimmerings. Leaves aswirl with gulls made wild by winter.

And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.

The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.

Your level of ignorance is based on what you believe you know and your ego.

Believe in your purposes. Define yourself endlessly.

I grew up in rural Dixon, CA, and I've been hunting with my father ever since I was a young boy. He taught me how to hunt and shoot, firearm safety, and have respect for the outdoors.

If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.

It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.

Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.

I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do

It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.